Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 46, 10 November 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Th«> Bicjcl<* Sulk». It is the belief of some observers that the bicvcle sulkv is responsible for so many of onr verv fast horses going wrong. It has increase»l the speevl rate several seconds, anJ when a horse is so exten*.led on a bard track as to approach the ‘2:10 mark or get below it. there is quite a strain. upou cords and muscles, to say nothing of the jar to feet aud legs. W’ith divided heats tho strain is more severo, and when the horse is asked to repeat tho perforraance week afterweek, tho thoHghtfal onlookers are not surprised to hear of a loss of form. The fast trotter or pacer is not made of iron. He is tiesh and b!ood, with an attending traiu o( weakness. It has been a maxira for years that paee kills. Tho bicycle has increased the paee, and if we desire to keep our fa>t horses sonnd and wanl otl' sorcness, we ranst start them in fewer races or Iimit tho nuraber of heats. Asking a horse to trot all the afternoon down iu tho ueighborhood of ‘2:12 forthe purpose of stimulating pool seiling is an injustice to the animal as well as to t’qe man who has thousands of dollars locked up in him. A cbunge issure to eome, becan.se the uuliraited heat plan is j>roving dreadfully expensive to all who are ambitions to own the best. W’heu a man has a good round snm invested in a horst' he does not care to use him np in a protracted fight for a purso of modest proportions principally to l*enefit those who sharein thoperceutago on the sale of pools. —Turf Fxtld and Farm.